Posts by Judge Mental

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

Biter bit?

At least the Civil Service now know what it is like to be on the receiving end of a Capita project. Do you think Capita will get other contracts when the people that decide have had their pensions system trashed?

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul

Don't

Just don't do it.

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Good planning.

It seems the airlines and Airbus planned this well. There's a four day window between Thanksgiving and Monday when fewer in USA are flying and everyone is stuffing themselves with Turkey or Black Friday shopping.

London councils probe cyber incident as shared IT systems knocked offline

Lesson learnt ?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/27/western_isles_ransomware_council/

Who's next ?

Just wait.

Another Hackneyed excuse will be along in a minute.

Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous

Who is winning the space race?

You can't fault them on this. Yet another example of the west allowing the competition to get ahead of us.

NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud

Air gapped cloud

More like a potential mushroom cloud.

UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B

Signal anyone?

Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims

I love my data, today and tomorrow.

" the attack compromised the data of its customers only, and there was no impact on LV's customers or systems at all."

https://www.lv.com Why are you in business if not to protect your customers ?

The customers data is theirs to protect, you cannot steal data without compromising systems.

Signed,

Ex LV and Allianz customer

IBM cutting several thousand jobs in latest layoffs

Re: How Sad -- Investment community take notice

Never, ever let the accountants run a business.

Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

Re: You know you would...

You can.

https://www.thespitfireexperience.com/

Also supporting RAFA.

Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown

Re: Systemic Failure Inherent in Human Organisations

Which is why passenger planes have more than one engine.

UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI

What's new ?

50% of the civil service are already artificially intelligent.

IBM is just not into the 'spend megabucks on cloudy GPUs' thing, rents them instead

Can we build it ?

No, we won't !

Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles

Cost

The real cost is how much blood are you prepared to spill to defend freedom.

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

< when it's impossible for the private sector to match the public sector on pensions >

Thank Gordon Brown and the Labour party for that one and now they're coming for your pensions again this year.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building

Re: Shortsighted

Because rocket science is easy.

Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry

Missing the obvious?

Cars have GPS and crossings don't move. Put the car into manual mode when approaching a crossing.

Politicos: 'There is a good strong case for government intervention' on JLR cyberattack

It gets worse.

Tata can fund support for it's suppliers out of petty cash. They've offshored thousands of jobs and still expect us to buy their cars and IT support ?

It's just poor IT security - TCS we're looking at you - https://www.tcs.com/what-we-do/services/cybersecurity

UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs

Re: I wonder how much the Home Office pays

From experience the consultancy firms employ snake oil salesmen pretending selling inadequate solutions, these are remedied by another product they promote. They earn the big bucks while robbing the tax payer.

Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport

Third Runway needed.

This proves a third runway is needed, just not at Heathrow. Having an alternate location to take the load would have reduced the impact.

Data loss prevention emergency tactic: keep your finger on the power button for the foreseeable future

Re: My thought when reading this

In the UK, the NHS has deity like status.

Not perfect but is there if you need it whatever your income and whether or not you pay tax.

Politicians play with this at their peril.

UK's largest water company investigates datacenters' use as drought hits

Re: Hosepipe bans

"..expect a century of under-investment to be! made good over a period of a few years."

They've had thirty years since privatisation to make a start. The only thing that flows without leaks are profits.

Re: Never been to the UK

Have you worked in Slough?

IBM talks up AI and hybrid cloud on back of 'solid' Q2

How the mighty have fallen.

A few years ago an article on IBM could generate hundreds of comments, now it only manages two in ten days.

Hospital IT melts in heatwave, leaving doctors without patient records

NoHS IT

BCPs don't mitigate for poor planning.

What are the odds on both data centres failing on the same day? Most DCs are built to cope with heat greater than 40C.

Re: New software solves this ?

Legacy systems, in my experience they're very likely running on old kit due to failure to invest properly.

IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers

Would you trust your business with a company that loses it's own data?